What I Ate Today: My Answer to “So, What DO You Eat?”

Almost everyday, friends or family members ask me what I eat. Most of them that have known me for quite some time have seen me lose and keep off 35 lbs. for over 4 years now. And pretty much anyone who knows me knows that I am passionate about healthy living and clean eating. They want to know how I have kept the weight off and what a Health Counselor gets down with at the dinner table. However, they assume that eating a high-raw, mostly vegan and gluten-free, whole foods diet is boring, unsatisfying, and just a bunch of “rabbit food”. They tell me they could never eat the way I do because it would be tasteless and too difficult, or they incorrectly assume that I have kept my weight off eating teeny-tiny portions.

These assumptions couldn’t be further from the truth.

I wish I could show them that there is a world of food and flavors that are so satisfying if they would just give it half a chance. I want folks to know that healthy foods don’t have to be difficult to incorporate into your daily routine and that you don’t have to starve yourself to keep weight off.

So I decided to use my blog as a tool to not only answer the question “So, What DO you eat?”, but to show healthy eating can be done without spending hours in the kitchen and without deprivation. In fact, I eat more now than I ever did when I was following strict diets and eating “diet” foods.

Take a look at the video and see what I ate on a typical work day.

Some of the things you’ll see are:

• Organic coffee with hemp milk
• Green Smoothie
• Kale salad with lentil sprouts
• Gluten-free Pumpkin Muffin
• Coconut Ice Cream

Granted, I don’t eat the same exact meals day in and day out; my daily diet changes based on the season, weather, activity level, if I am traveling, etc. However, this gives you a good idea of what my diet is like. There are some staples that I do have everyday, like lots of greens (more on that in another post!). Mainly, I hope this video shows you that with a whole foods diet, you can be healthy and satisfied. In fact, I was so satisfied, I didn’t even have room for the dessert I mentioned in the video!

Feel free to let me know what you learned and share with me what your daily diet looks like.